Articles from the January 15, 2013 edition

Initiatives for encouraging Great Allegheny Passage (GAP) travelers to visit the South Side was the sole presentation at the Jan. 8 meeting of the South Side Planning Forum. Other topics touched upon during the evening included the invitation to the...

Pittsburgh Homicide detectives are conducting an investigation into the shooting death of an Allentown teenager last week. Deondre Pace, 16, was shot near the intersection of Climax Street and Beltzhoover Avenue at approximately 7:15 p.m. on January...

New to www.sopghreporter.com, the South Pittsburgh Reporter’s website, is a copy of the paper readers can flip through the pages. The complete copy, just like what you would pick up at your neighborhood merchant, comes complete with all the ads...

Thanks for your article about snow removal within 24 hours. Yes, South Side is filled with the young or with money that don’t know what a broom or shovel is for. But they have landlord who should see to it they do. Put it in their lease or come...

Harry Manley of Gateway Health Plan will speak on Health Literacy and Understanding Your Health at the Elder-ado, Knoxville center, 320 Brownsville Road. The presentation will take place from 11:45 a.m. to 12:15 p.m. on Friday, Jan....

Steel City Codefest, a civic software application (app) development competition designed t o grow the city’s innovation and technology community through the creation of technology infrastructure to benefit citizens, is being held February 23 and...

Carnegie Library of Pittsburgh - Carrick has a variety of upcoming programs coming up in January and February. Winter Storytime for toddlers and preschoolers is on Thursdays at 11:30 a.m. through February 28. Parents and their children can share the...

Everest Institute and the Urban League of Greater Pittsburgh have teamed up to provide a GED® test preparation and completion and college bound program that is free and open to the public. Anyone interested in enrolling in the Urban League of Greate...

Diane Meyer of Santa Monica, CA, and Ross Mantle of Pittsburgh are the winners of the Silver Eye Center for Photography’s Fellowship 13 International Photography Competition. Now in its 13th year, this juried competition identifies and recognizes...

Registration is now open for the broad array of adult education classes and diploma programs offered by Goodwill of Southwestern Pennsylvania at eight sites in Allegheny County and one in Fayette County. Career Pathway GED® courses range from...

After something of a one-year hiatus, and some 105 days before the Dick’s Sporting Goods Pittsburgh Marathon, the UPMC Center for Sports Medicine will resume its tradition of pre-race prep courses by holding the first of three marathon seminars on...

State Rep. Jake Wheatley, D-Allegheny, will hold his fourth annual Minority/Women/Disadvantaged Businesses Lobby Day on Feb. 12. “Just like many other small businesses, businesses owned by minorities, women and the disadvantaged have the potential...

In honor of Martin Luther King Jr. Day, Steeltown Entertainment Project will launch of its third annual Take A Shot at Changing the World contest. The event will take place on Saturday, Jan. 19, at 2 p.m., at the Heinz History Center with a special...

Pittsburgh’s Zoning Board of Adjustment has scheduled the following public hearing of interest to South Pittsburgh residents in the first floor hearing room of the John P. Robin Civic Building, 200 Ross Street, Downtown. Zone case 17/13 on...